Today’s GOP is the right wing Internet come to life. It’s as if every comment board in that space came to life.

On a serious note, it seems like quite a few reactionaries learned too late the contradictions between free-market capitalism and “muh traditional values” and are having a permanent nervous breakdown amid this realization, thus making them extremely annoying as of late.

Conservative politics has been in a downward spiral for years. Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’reilly were a sign of how bad it was getting. They hated how truth, freedom, and progress undermined their loss of control. The mechanism that helped drive this is economic disparity, especially in rural areas (ironically created by conservative economic policy). Another major part of it was marginalized Christians who separated themselves from mainstream society, starting with home schooling. This led to a very distorted world view. Another major part of it is straight up racism. Some of it seeing black people make progress, some of it seeing brown people coming across the border, some of it religious racism, especially against Islam (“they will replace us”). But the biggest aspect is the echo chambers of social media and the anger amplifying algorithms and conspiracy. Conservatives quickly learned to weaponize that. You see massive numbers of paid right wing trolls, disinformation brokers, and bots. There are also various unethical corporations that leverage this, particularly when it comes to undermining environmental issues. The conservative movement is deeply sick at this point. In a way that is disturbingly similar to pre-Nazi Germany.

I know it's not strictly comparable, but the conservative cultural attitude reminds me a lot of when John Dolan was describing the psychic condition of slave states prior to the civil war. It wasn't enough that their life of slavery was *allowed*, it had to be enthusiastically adopted and praised by others. Even under doughfaces like Pierce or Buchanan, they acted like hysterical, petulant children when it was suggested that anyone didn't share their views or (horror of horrors) actively opposed them.

I live about 5000 miles away from modern American Republicans. I’d like to make that 7000.

2000s conservatives got irreperably traumatized by Reddit Fedora Athiests circa 2011. Oh my Science!

20:12 I've observed a part of this, lots of posts and accounts recently adopting a hyper-literalist view of the Bible and labeling others who argue with them "exegeticals". It's baffling, outside of solipsistic or vibes-based indulgence: "when I read the Bible, the True Meaning is beamed into my brain by God, and anyone who contradicts me are the ones artificially inserting stuff into the text" (you know, like the context in which it was written, implications of translations, other valid ways of interpretation, etc) To clock them, look for the phrase "plain reading".

All of the weirdos they were talking about are getting angry in the comment section.

So glad the algorithm brought me to your channel. I low key feel like you've been listening to my conversations

why are there so many hogs angry in the comments about this lol?

Republican Soyvolution

The last time I saw anything about DeSantis and Disney it seemed like Disney secured full control over the legal entity that governs the property locally. Don’t think it was a win for him

Girst and fay

Wouldn't it be Republican Creationism?

I thought conservatives love Sydney Sweeney lol why is this poor woman so politicized...

Its an odd political party in a democracy that opposes democracy.

Where have all the podcast episodes gone? Gone from Apple, Spotify, everywhere.

Being a foreign-born atheist (from East Asia*, i.e. "Open, self-declared atheism has been pretty mundane here for about a century, even in countries that haven't had an anti-clerical Marxist-Leninist revolution like China."), from a family with a Confucian and Buddhist background, I'm not really convinced by the argument "You see, the (new American) atheists beat the conservatives, and they never recovered." Then again, I live in a conservative stronghold, Georgia, where less than 1% of the population would identify themselves as atheists, and "In God we Trust" still completely dominates the civic arena even in places that vote Democrat. Even a biologist like Dawkins has openly espoused leftist economic principles (state intervention, redistribution, deliberate pursuit of reducing the wealth gap) that Southern Democrats range from "we firmly reject this and will run against it" to "this is Russian communist subversion", and assuredly the Southern Republicans like Kemp are only more in opposition. Maybe the Chapo boys and their guests are seeing a very different brand of conservative in the northeast, but otherwise, nothing like that down here: God is still very much a Republican, and on the other side, Republicans are all still very much on Team God, which is why there are zero "New Atheists" anywhere near elected office or the party machinery. *We may have to exclude South Korea, but the rest of Asia, including Asian Russia and the Central Asia Republics, see that as a religious freak show thanks to the American occupation.

It does feel like there’s a bit of a digital tent revival movement right now

Conservatives held their nose and voted for him in 2016 bc all they wanted, more than anything in the world, was just ONE Supreme Court Nomination. The fact that Trump successfully nominated THREE Supreme Court Justices is why his base will always be 100% loyal to Trump. It literally doesn't matter what he does moving forward, his base will never abandon him. Thats why 97% of people who voted for him in 2020 will proudly do so again in 2024. I cannot even begin to describe the importance of the Supreme Court to Conservatives. Trump gave them something that they couldn't even fathom in their wildest dreams and the vast majority of them would die for him bc of what he did for them.

Love me some Osita. He always has an interesting read on things.

This clip had 666 views until I clicked on it, sorry for ruining it.

It's remarkable to me how what i'm supposed to believe is the less conservative party has a culture that's more insular, averse to lateral thinking, and ultimately resistant to change. That said, someone (a Trillbillies host?) once pointed out that american politics never fundamentally change, they just intensify.

Devolution....the word is devolution.

Free galestine

Who is Sidney Sweeny?

19:09 Felix jumpscare

anyone else here gay?

Kankles 🦶

They would almost be hippies, and being your happiness does not come from this pop culture delusion, which is cool, if they weren’t so rigid their own narcissistic ends.

20:30 a personal relationship with Jesus is a “weird development of right wing politics”.

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Lets stop talking about womens rights and start talking about womens WRONGS. Astrology who? Im sorry im not WOKE enough to get a girlfriend. More of a MGTOW guy anyway since the divorce.

Isn't that fact that any "Progressive" personality or faction brings up religion as a motivation for the opposition, does that not cement Marxism and 'De-Structuralist/Post-Structuralist' philosophical underpinnings of Progressivism as a 'secular religion'?

gayer than thou

Very confused by claimed Richard Hanania is an incel. He has a wife and at least one kid.

Will, I think you are completely out of touch with a lot of religious Americans. I was raised orthodox mainstream Mormon (i.e. the SLC based sect of Mormonism). I am now an atheist and have been one for many years. However, my boomer parents are still devout Mormons. Mormonism is obviously bull$hit, but my parents are sincere, charitable, loving, & hard-working. They are not hypocrites. Be careful not to lump all religious Americans with the Boeberts, Gaetzs, & Trumps of the world (i.e. hypocritical religious phonies).

Latinos por trump.

The modern conservative movement IS american culture. Thats why they are called conservatism.

the lack of self-awareness here is astonishing

Listening to this cements that neither Left or Right have any idea what motives each other.

Sounds like you guys are really confused, about what is going on

Listening to you guys for 2 minutes makes me want to vote for Trump.

This sounds like the NPR Shit Lib Radio for Millenials.

You’d embarrass yourself less if you’d talk to an actual conservative instead of looking at them through binoculars like you’re on safari. This is decades worth of compounded ignorance. You can see the strata in cross section.

You guys sound completely out of touch. Go outside and actually talk to some people who disagree with you.

I don’t like Trump but he did good last time and Joe is doing terrible. We need to close the border before anything else.

From what I've seen recently Sohrab Ahmari is basically just advocating the right in the U.S to embrace Red Toryism. He did an interview awhile back with David Griscom on Left Reckoning. He actually did articulate some alright critiques of capitalism. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aqmAfK6jx93Jnqs.html